Legal Opinion
In Re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided February 16, 2005No. 1657PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TRANSFER ORDER
WM. TERRELL HODGES, Chairman.
This litigation presently consists of 148 actions pending in 41 federal districts and listed on the attached Schedule A. Before the Panel are two motions, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, that taken together seek centralization for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings of all but one of these actions. 1 Plaintiff in one Eastern Louisiana action seeks centralization of this litigation in the Eastern or Western Districts of Louisiana. Defendant Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck) moves for centralization of this litigation in either the District of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- In Re Prudential Ins. Co. of America Sales Pract.United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 2001
- In Re Smith Patent LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1976
- In Re IvyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- In Re Janus Mutual Funds Investment LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 2004
3Cited by30 opinions
- In Re Vioxx Products Liability LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 2007
- In re Light Cigarettes Marketing Sales Practices LitigationDistrict Court, D. Maine · 2011
- Pickering v. A.L.S. Enterprises, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 2012
- In re Vioxx Products Liability LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 2006
- In Re Vioxx Products Liability LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 2007
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